No, the original versions of the Mega Drive had no built-in games. They will display nothing but a black screen if a) there is no cartridge inserted or b) the console can't read the cartridge.
I have an Xbox One controller, a Dual Shock 4, and various Bluetooth 8bitdo controllers, and all of them seem to work just fine through Proton, as long as the game has gamepad support built in. I don't have Dark Souls 3 but I'd bet the story would be the same.
oh hey, I have some of those handheld console stands printed out and holding my various DSes etc, they're great!
another Macon County sufferer?
https://www.floppydisk.com/ this is a real website with an actual reputable dealer behind it, or at least it was ten years ago when I bought some 5.25" disks from them, and the website looks exactly the same.
look up youtube videos about the Retrotink 4k and the OSSC, there's a whole world of technology designed to fix this exact problem
That's actually the start of The Tale of the Body Thief (1992), fourth book in the series.
A secure, configurable file-sharing and URL shortening web app written in Rust.
Now I'm not saying I recommend it, but Q-Squared by Peter David discusses exactly this.
Because DisplayPort is run by VESA, who better understand the appeal of an open standard.
It looks like Forkyz (in its current version) reads more than just PUZ files now:
Support new input formats (AM Universal JSON, Exolve, PA Puzzles HTML, Spoonbill, Wall Street Journal JSON, .xd, XWord).
[This page] (https://github.com/doshea/nyt_crosswords) is linked from the Forkyz list of sources page you linked. It was the first one I clicked on, and it is a huge archive of JSON files.
I'm very sorry to hear about your dad, and I hope this can help in some way.
my brother in christ, you're the tech industry